High Wind, Jewell
- When
- February 9, 12:00 PM CST to February 10, 4:00 AM CST
- Where
- Jewell forecast zone
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 39.785, -98.218 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in Kansas, February 9 to 10, 2002
Sustained winds of around 40 mph with gusts to 60 mph belted north-central Kansas the afternoon and evening of February 9. A brief period of light snow teamed with the wind to cause poor visibilities for a time, but little accumulation was noted.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 6 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 6
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS GID wrote it up.
Sustained winds of around 40 mph with gusts to 60 mph belted north-central Kansas the afternoon and evening of February 9. A brief period of light snow teamed with the wind to cause poor visibilities for a time, but little accumulation was noted. The wind and snow were the product of very intense low pressure moving across the region.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 9, 2:10 AM CST, 9 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 9, 2:10 AM CST, 9 hours 50 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 210 AM CST SAT FEB 9 2002 ...SNOW AND WIND TODAY AND TONIGHT MAIN FORECAST CONCERNS... LOW/TROUGH CURRENTLY CUTTING RIGHT THROUGH CWA WITH SFC LOW TRACKING EAST/SOUTHEAST. BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON CENTER OF SFC LOW SHOULD BE NEAR SE NE WITH STRONG HIGH PRESSURE ON ITS TAIL AND COMING OUT OF THE ROCKIES INTO THE HIGH PLAINS. DELTA PS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF 35 TO 40 MB ACROSS THE STATE WILL GIVE EXTREMELY STRONG WINDS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. 850 WINDS HAVE ALREADY INCREASED TO 40 TO 55 KT WEST AND SOUTH OF OUR AREA. GOOD TILT TO SYSTEM THROUGH THIS EVENING BEFORE STACKING AND WEAKENING SOME. STRONG JET OF 130 TO 150 KTS DIGGING SOUTH ON BACKSIDE OF UPPER TROUGH ALLOWING MOISTURE AXIS ALSO TO RIDE FURTHER SOUTH. DEFINITELY LOOKS MORE MOIST THAN 24 HRS AGO...WITH WRAP AROUND HAVING A BIT MORE TIME TO DELIVER. 2 TO 4 INCHES LOOKS LIKE A GOOD BET OVER ENTIRE CWA AT THIS POINT WITH HIGHER AMOUNTS NORTH...LOWER AMOUNTS SOUTH AND WEST. IF TROUGH DIGS MUCH MORE...MAY GET MORE THAN THAT...ESPECIALLY OVER NORTHERN CWA...HAVE TO KEEP AN EYE ON TODAY. MODELS HAVE COME AROUND TO SIMILAR SOLUTIONS WITH SFC LOW STILL SHOWING BEST AREA FOR ISENTROPIC LIFT AND QG FORCING NORTHEAST OF THE CWA...BUT NOW WITH TROUGH DIGGING MUCH HARDER...ETA/AVN BOTH SHOW HEAVIER AREA OF SNOW IN DEFORMATION ZONE FARTHER SOUTHWEST THAN YESTERDAY...WHICH IS WHAT I WAS ORIGINALLY THINKING ANYWAY. PREV AND UPDATE FORECAST LOOK GOOD...ONLY CHANGE IS TO EXTEND WINTER STORM WARNING INTO KANSAS IN PLACE OF HIGH WIND WARNING. NORTHWEST WINDS REALLY CRANK BY THIS AFTERNOON AFTERNOON AND EVENING BEHIND THE SYSTEM...AS 850 WINDS OF 60 TO 70 KTS ARE WIDESPREAD OVER CWA BY THIS TIME. PICS FROM SPACE SHOW STRONG UPPER LVL LOW PRESSURE OVER FRONT RANGE IN ADDITION TO PLENTY OF UPPER LVL MOISTURE ASSOCIATED WITH LEFT EXIT OF 250MB JET. 700-500MB DEFORMATION FIELDS FROM ETA /AVN SHOWING GOOD AGREEMENT WITH AVN FURTHEST SOUTH...ALSO ISENTROPIC LIFT AND CWA UNDER EXIT REGION OF CYCLONICALLY CURVED JET WILL CONTINUE TO HELP PRECIP OVER CWA. SO...LIKELY POPS HIGH OVER ENTIRE CWA. SUNDAY...GRADUALLY BRING DOWN NW WINDS THROUGH DAY AS SYSTEM MOVES EAST...AND WITH NORTH FLOW OVER SNOW...KEEPING TEMPS COOL EVEN WITH PREVALENT SUNSHINE. BEYOND...WEAK SYSTEMS MOVING THROUGH TRANSITIONING NW UPPER FLOW ...WILL JUST SCRAPE OUR REGION...AS THEY MOVE INTO THE GREAT LAKES REGION. WARMEST ON MONDAY...THEN SLIGHTLY COOLER TUESDAY WITH SOME CLOUDS. SOME WARMING WED AHEAD OF NEXT SYSTEM ON WED NIGHT OR THU. CHANCE STILL LOOKS OK FOR THU...HOWEVER BEST DYNAMICS AND MOISTURE STILL LOOK TO BE NORTH AND EAST OF THE AREA...SO NOT GETTING TOO EXCITED AT THIS POINT. .GID...WINTER STORM WARNING ALL NE AND KS COUNTIES. 10
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
6 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Mitchell
- When
- February 9, 12:00 PM CST to February 10, 4:00 AM CST
- Where
- Mitchell forecast zone
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 39.393, -98.209 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Osborne
- When
- February 9, 12:00 PM CST to February 10, 4:00 AM CST
- Where
- Osborne forecast zone
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 39.350, -98.768 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Phillips
- When
- February 9, 12:00 PM CST to February 10, 4:00 AM CST
- Where
- Phillips forecast zone
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 39.785, -99.347 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Rooks
- When
- February 9, 12:00 PM CST to February 10, 4:00 AM CST
- Where
- Rooks forecast zone
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 39.350, -99.325 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Smith
- When
- February 9, 12:00 PM CST to February 10, 4:00 AM CST
- Where
- Smith forecast zone
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 39.785, -98.785 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Wildfire and Dust Storm in California, February 9 to 13, 2002
- High Wind in California, February 9 to 10, 2002
- High Wind in California, February 9 to 10, 2002
- High Wind in Kansas, February 9, 2002
- Rip Current in Guam, February 9, 2002
- High Wind in Nebraska, February 9 to 10, 2002
- Winter Storm in Nebraska, February 9 to 10, 2002
- Winter Storm in Kansas, February 9, 2002
- Winter Storm in Minnesota, February 9 to 10, 2002
- High Wind in Nebraska, February 9, 2002
- Winter Storm in Kansas, February 9, 2002
- High Wind in Colorado, February 9, 2002
More
Every storm in Kansas in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Kansas, February 2002
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5281561, 5281562, 5281563, 5281564, 5281565, 5281566.